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HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI thank my hon. Friend for that point. There is some interesting polling coming out today, which I will deal with. Of course, Mr Speaker, I very much accept your point about…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxVery much so, Mr Speaker. I will give way to the hon. Member for Hexham (Joe Morris). Is he going to speak up for his farmers?04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI am so sorry—in fairness, the hon. Gentleman was obviously speaking to farmers in his constituency on Sunday. Did I hear that there is a protest going on in his constituency at…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI beg to move, That this House regrets that the Government has undone its promises to farmers, and is seeking to punish them with Inheritance Tax bills of hundreds of thousands,…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxIn a moment. Since the Budget, the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has analysed the family farm tax and applied tax law and the realities of modern-day farming to it.…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxThe hon. Gentleman and I, unusually, can join forces on this matter. While I am going to resist the temptation to revisit Brexit, what I will do is point him to paragraph 4.11 of…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxMy apologies, Mr Speaker. I am reminded of paragraph 4.11 of the CAAV report, which sets out the peculiar legal problems posed by the family farm tax in the context of Scottish…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFarming and Inheritance TaxI will in a minute. I am told by advisers that some farmers choose to use BPR only because it is easier in probate. Guess what? Yet again, Ministers do not know how many farms are…04 Dec 2024HANSARD Storm BertI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Storm Bert has had, and continues to have, terrible impacts across the United Kingdom. Our thoughts are with the…25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI wish His Majesty the King a very happy birthday. The Chancellor, the Secretary of State and the Food Minister claim that their family farm tax will affect only a quarter of…14 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Secretary of State perhaps needs to ask his Food Minister why he said at the Agricultural Industries Confederation conference that the Government are checking the figures. Let…14 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsNo. What is more, the NFU, the Tenant Farmers Association and the Country Land and Business Association cannot make them add up either.11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsI thank the right hon. Gentleman for holding this important debate, and for welcoming me to my new role. From the arable fields outside my front door to the cattle and…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsI completely agree with right hon. Lady. If the Secretary of State would like to intervene on me, he can answer her intervention. Answer came there none.11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsYou couldn’t make it up, could you? This is what is so worrying. This is why, at the beginning, I talked about a Labour Government who do not understand and do not care, and it is…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsMy right hon. Friend makes an important point about our experience as Treasury Ministers. Labour Back Benchers are shouting “Give way!” because they do not like hearing the truth.…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsI promise that I will give way in a moment. As the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness and my right hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (John Glen) have both said, the sense of…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsI will give way once more, and then I must make some progress.11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsVery much so, and I thank my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) and for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) for their accurate and insightful interventions. Not only…11 Nov 2024HANSARDRural AffairsIt most certainly is a concern, and I thank my hon. Friend for raising that. He represents a very rural constituency and knows only too well the concerns his constituents are…11 Nov 2024